Want to know what the downtown it-kids will be listening to this summer? Ask Sean Hanratty, the creative director of Santos Party House. The 27-year-old has worked with bands like Gang Gang Dance, Salem and Lykke Li, as well as with artists like Jules Marquis. Here the Texas-born Hanratty offers the first of five playlists fit for any summer soiree. “I asked good friends, friends of friends and people I generally thought were doing cool things for song recommendations,” he says. Spencer Sweeney, a multimedia artist, painter and the owner of Santos Party House, supplies the first playlist. Future lists will come from eclectic artists all hand-picked by Hanratty, including Dean Bein of the label True Panther Sounds/Matador Records, the Los Angeles-based beat makers Asma Maroof and Daniel Pineda of NguzuNguzu, the video artists Thunderhorse, as well as a fellow Texan, Erick Swenson. “Swenson is a bit of a wild card,” says Hanratty of the fantastical installation artist. “But I really love his work and want anything to do with what he creates.”

If you dig what you hear — like Sweeney’s pick of the British rock band The Sweet’s “Fourth of July” — then check out Hanratty and Sweeney’s new weekly party, debuting tonight, “Spencer’s Gifts.” “It basically was created to have an outlet for Friday nights for our friends,” says Hanratty of his new tradition of taking back the start of the weekend in the basement of Santos. “The weekend situation in New York City has become kind of ridiculous, so we just wanted to take it back to a certain degree.” Tonight’s grand opening includes Gavin Russom and a special live performance by Geneva Jacuzzi. Go to santospartyhouse.com.